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The Warp #1
Corruptor
The Warp was perfectly safe, they claimed.
They were wrong…
The Warp was the single greatest advance in computer technology since the invention of the microchip. A virtual reality gaming system so advanced that the person inside wasn’t just in the game, but was the game. Within The Warp lay the most cunning of all games, the de facto king of online gaming, the one game which was reputedly unbeatable: Crisis.
The Warp was flawless. The game was perfect. Until something went terribly wrong.
Tori Adams and her group of friends are trapped within the game, unable to log off and free their minds. The uploaded virus was in their brains, a ticking time bomb ready to go off. With no other options presented to them, Tori must do the one thing that had never been done before, what was deemed couldn’t be done: beat Crisis.
Armed with only their computer skills and whatever the game grants them, the group must battle through impossible odds and confront past demons if they want to survive. With an unseen enemy hot on their trail and tension running high, they will learn to trust each other more than they had ever thought.
Even if one of them is a traitor…
They were wrong…
The Warp was the single greatest advance in computer technology since the invention of the microchip. A virtual reality gaming system so advanced that the person inside wasn’t just in the game, but was the game. Within The Warp lay the most cunning of all games, the de facto king of online gaming, the one game which was reputedly unbeatable: Crisis.
The Warp was flawless. The game was perfect. Until something went terribly wrong.
Tori Adams and her group of friends are trapped within the game, unable to log off and free their minds. The uploaded virus was in their brains, a ticking time bomb ready to go off. With no other options presented to them, Tori must do the one thing that had never been done before, what was deemed couldn’t be done: beat Crisis.
Armed with only their computer skills and whatever the game grants them, the group must battle through impossible odds and confront past demons if they want to survive. With an unseen enemy hot on their trail and tension running high, they will learn to trust each other more than they had ever thought.
Even if one of them is a traitor…
302 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published November 30, 2010
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About the author
Jason Córdova
75 books56 followersBestselling author Jason Cordova is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the author of Mountain of Fire and Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever (w/ Larry Correia), and editor of Chicks in Tank Tops and Dancing with Destruction.
Along the way, he has had novels published in multiple languages around the world, been featured in over 40 anthologies, and has penned over two dozen novels across many genres, including YA, horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.
A history nerd, he is a Navy veteran, former teacher, and is currently an Associate Editor at Baen Books.
Along the way, he has had novels published in multiple languages around the world, been featured in over 40 anthologies, and has penned over two dozen novels across many genres, including YA, horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy.
A history nerd, he is a Navy veteran, former teacher, and is currently an Associate Editor at Baen Books.
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September 17, 2017
I've always loved this book. When I first read it back in 2010, I thought the concept was inventive and innovative, and that I really wanted to know more about the world Jason had built. I left him a message on his blog, and he replied that he had at least 2 more books written, but not yet published. I said that I hoped to one day read those books. To find out who "Gargoyle" was, what he had planned for the world, and what happened next to Tori and Dylan, Rodney and Chelsea and their friends.
Having just re-read this book, nothing has changed. The Warp is the future of gaming. A fully immersive game that allows players to not only see the world, they feel it, smell it, touch it, taste it, and experience it in all it's wonders. Tori is one of the top players in the game, an "en finite" who is a target of the Moderators, a group employed by Warpsoft to ensure the game doesn't get beaten. After a group of rogue Mods manage to upload a virus into the game to take it over, Tori and her friends have to not only survive, but if someone doesn't beat the game, their physical bodies may die, as the devices they are wearing to play will kill them if disconnected from the game.
Meanwhile, Rodney works for Warpsoft, something he has kept from his daughter, and he and his team are working frantically to stop the terrorist Mods and save the lives of the players. Thanks to something Tori has enabled in her playing mode, they find a means to send messages to not only her but all the other players in the game, eventually alerting them that someone, Tori, needs to beat the game to re-set it, causing the virus to be discarded, and allowing all the trapped players to be freed.
Jason has written a book that shows that teamwork and friendship are more important than going it alone, but he has also asked ethical questions about if something happens in a game, should there be real world consequences? Not only for the blackmail demanded by the terrorist Mods (and the deaths in the real world of players), but also for a "virtual" rape Tori suffers at the hands of an ex-boyfriend in the virtual world. Should a company that earns billions and billions be made to pay some of that money to help the poor and eliminate world hunger and poverty?
I am looking forward to the next book in the series, which I'm happy to say will be released some time before Christmas.
Having just re-read this book, nothing has changed. The Warp is the future of gaming. A fully immersive game that allows players to not only see the world, they feel it, smell it, touch it, taste it, and experience it in all it's wonders. Tori is one of the top players in the game, an "en finite" who is a target of the Moderators, a group employed by Warpsoft to ensure the game doesn't get beaten. After a group of rogue Mods manage to upload a virus into the game to take it over, Tori and her friends have to not only survive, but if someone doesn't beat the game, their physical bodies may die, as the devices they are wearing to play will kill them if disconnected from the game.
Meanwhile, Rodney works for Warpsoft, something he has kept from his daughter, and he and his team are working frantically to stop the terrorist Mods and save the lives of the players. Thanks to something Tori has enabled in her playing mode, they find a means to send messages to not only her but all the other players in the game, eventually alerting them that someone, Tori, needs to beat the game to re-set it, causing the virus to be discarded, and allowing all the trapped players to be freed.
Jason has written a book that shows that teamwork and friendship are more important than going it alone, but he has also asked ethical questions about if something happens in a game, should there be real world consequences? Not only for the blackmail demanded by the terrorist Mods (and the deaths in the real world of players), but also for a "virtual" rape Tori suffers at the hands of an ex-boyfriend in the virtual world. Should a company that earns billions and billions be made to pay some of that money to help the poor and eliminate world hunger and poverty?
I am looking forward to the next book in the series, which I'm happy to say will be released some time before Christmas.
September 11, 2017
I received a publisher copy of the 2017 rewritten version of this novel for review prior to republication on Sept 8, 2017. This was a fast paced, action packed story with characters you're deeply involved with immediately. It's easy to feel like these are people you know who are making decisions you can sympathize with. I was reading this during a few days I had a lot of other commitments & I kept getting drawn back into Tori's world because I needed to know what was going to happen next! Great story & even if you've read the original publication, there are enough expansions & changes to make purchasing the new version well worth it. The sequel, Devastator is coming soon & it's definitely a great time to refamiliarize yourself with The Warp!
September 19, 2017
Corruptor brings cyberpunk and MMORPGs together into one book.
But what happens when the people who are supposed to be watching the game take over and trap users from all over the world in its system?
Tori and her party figure out something’s not quite right and set out to fix the problem before too much time passes in the real world, with the very real consequence that all the players trapped in the game could die.
Overall Corruptor is a very good book, good characters, excellent action. However the author tends to give you large chunks of technical data (which are, to be fair, necessary for the story) that tend to pull you out of the story while you digest it.
I received an advance copy of the novel from the publisher for an honest review.
But what happens when the people who are supposed to be watching the game take over and trap users from all over the world in its system?
Tori and her party figure out something’s not quite right and set out to fix the problem before too much time passes in the real world, with the very real consequence that all the players trapped in the game could die.
Overall Corruptor is a very good book, good characters, excellent action. However the author tends to give you large chunks of technical data (which are, to be fair, necessary for the story) that tend to pull you out of the story while you digest it.
I received an advance copy of the novel from the publisher for an honest review.
July 26, 2018
Somebody with a technology background needs to be on the proofreading team of this series. There's so many things wrong with the text in this book it's not even funny. Contrary to popular belief, windows is not the model for all operating systems, and especially not those running on mainframes. I realize this was supposed to be some sort of future story, where computer technology has moved almost to the quantum level, but there's just some things you should not get wrong when you're trying to develop a believable world. Ok, so I'm a major computer geek, and most folks probably won't even notice the above issues, but dammit, science fiction is supposed to be believable, and those errors just blew the whole thing for me.
But, with that rant out of the way, I should say that the story was generally a good one. It's not a new concept, not by a long shot, but it was done well enough to merit attention by those gamelit fans who enjoy action packed stories, and (mostly) believable environments. Most gamelit fans will enjoy this one, and it looks like it's part of a series, so it might be good to see how that develops as well.
One caveat though, there's a point in the book where it says particular things can't happen in the realm the story takes place, then one of the major events in the story near the middle end of the book is exactly that event that supposedly can't take place in this environment. That's a major discrepancy that someone on the proofreading team should have caught, and kind of also ruins the story as a whole for me as well.
But, with that rant out of the way, I should say that the story was generally a good one. It's not a new concept, not by a long shot, but it was done well enough to merit attention by those gamelit fans who enjoy action packed stories, and (mostly) believable environments. Most gamelit fans will enjoy this one, and it looks like it's part of a series, so it might be good to see how that develops as well.
One caveat though, there's a point in the book where it says particular things can't happen in the realm the story takes place, then one of the major events in the story near the middle end of the book is exactly that event that supposedly can't take place in this environment. That's a major discrepancy that someone on the proofreading team should have caught, and kind of also ruins the story as a whole for me as well.
March 8, 2017
A nice fun enjoyable read. Good action, great plot line. Definitely recommend this to read.
November 22, 2010
I'm not going to review my own book. However, I will put up the official promo blurb I wrote when I sold the book a few years back.
The Warp was perfectly safe, they claimed.
They were wrong...
The Warp was the single greatest advance in computer technology since the invention of the microchip. A virtual reality gaming system so advanced that the person inside wasn’t just in the game, but was the game. Within The Warp lay the most cunning of all games, the de facto king of online gaming, the one game which was reputedly unbeatable: Crisis.
The Warp was flawless. The game was perfect. Until something went terribly wrong.
Tori Adams and her group of friends are trapped within the game, unable to log off and free their minds. The uploaded virus is in their brains, a ticking time bomb ready to go off. With no other options presented to them, Tori must do the one thing that had never been done before, what was deemed couldn’t be done: beat Crisis.
Armed with only their computer skills and whatever the game grants them, the group must battle through impossible odds and confront past demons if they want to survive. With an unseen enemy hot on their trail and tension running high, they will learn to trust each other more than they had ever thought.
Even if one of them is a traitor...
The Warp was perfectly safe, they claimed.
They were wrong...
The Warp was the single greatest advance in computer technology since the invention of the microchip. A virtual reality gaming system so advanced that the person inside wasn’t just in the game, but was the game. Within The Warp lay the most cunning of all games, the de facto king of online gaming, the one game which was reputedly unbeatable: Crisis.
The Warp was flawless. The game was perfect. Until something went terribly wrong.
Tori Adams and her group of friends are trapped within the game, unable to log off and free their minds. The uploaded virus is in their brains, a ticking time bomb ready to go off. With no other options presented to them, Tori must do the one thing that had never been done before, what was deemed couldn’t be done: beat Crisis.
Armed with only their computer skills and whatever the game grants them, the group must battle through impossible odds and confront past demons if they want to survive. With an unseen enemy hot on their trail and tension running high, they will learn to trust each other more than they had ever thought.
Even if one of them is a traitor...
March 22, 2016
Jason is an engaging author who grabs the reader and keeps them interested until the end of the book. Although I am not a fan of most science fiction, I had difficulty putting Corruptor down! Definitely a good read.
March 28, 2017
A brilliant take on the video game as virtual reality mixed in with mystery and murder.
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